Well, we sanded off the flotation line, so I had to stick it back in the water to get the float line again. It floats about half an inch below the corners (chimes?). This was full fuel and motor and everything except ice. The ice chests will go in the back. It was very level, the front of the boat is a little closer to the water than I would like, but the boat floats really high and I think it’ll fly.
We had to redo a couple of hatches in the floor, after we painted them they were a little tight, so we’ve been opening those back up and going to repaint those. You can see in the pictures the pink around the hatch openings. Then on the outside of the boat, we went around the outside with 600 grit, we still need the 1000 and then the buffer.
We also found a surprise! I was checking all the fluids on the motor and the tranny, and the tranny was full of milk! We had to take that apart today, all the bearings are good though, it looks like on one of the last two trips this motor did on my 32 footer, the tranny cooler ruptured. So that has us stopped until I get a new one in, I have the tranny all cleaned up on the inside with fresh oil and installed again. I also noticed quite a bit of play in the turbine on the turbo, so I have that off as well and I’m going to get a new center put in it while the cooler is on the way here.
Tomorrow we are going to do the bottom paint. After I shot these pictures, we got the bottom all masked off for where the bottom paint goes, and we got under there with some 80 grit and orbital sanders and got it all sanded down and ready to paint. I’ll post some more pictures when the bottom is blue!